ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Unbiased rendering

Okay kiddo, so you know how when you draw a picture, sometimes you might make it look the way you want it to, even if it's not really how it looks in real life? Well, that's not always the best way to do things, especially if you're trying to make a picture of something that needs to look very realistic.

That's where unbiased rendering comes in! Basically, it's a way to make pictures that are as true to real life as possible. Instead of relying on just your own ideas about what something should look like, unbiased rendering uses complicated math and algorithms to calculate how light interacts with objects in the scene.

This means that everything in the picture is given the same amount of attention and detail, without any bias towards certain parts or angles. Just like how you might try to draw every detail of a flower or a bug to make it look as real as possible, unbiased rendering tries to capture all the details of the scene to create a truly realistic image.

It might sound a little complicated, but the end result is a picture that looks like you could almost reach out and touch it! Pretty cool, huh?